Born in Rapid City, South Dakota, David Hallberg began jazz and tap classes at
the age of ten. He began his formal ballet training at 13 with Kee Juan Han at
the Arizona Ballet School in Phoenix where he studied intensively for four
years. In 1999, he was accepted into the Paris Opera Ballet School where he
continued his studies under the direction of Claude Bessy, Jacques Namont and
Gilbert Meyer.
Hallberg attended American Ballet Theatre’s New York
Summer Intensive in 1999 and 2000 and was an ABT National Training Scholar for
both of those years.
Hallberg joined ABT’s Studio Company (now ABT II) in
September 2000 and then joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps
de ballet in April 2001, was promoted to Soloist in January 2004 and Principal
in May 2005. His roles with the Company include the Boy in Afternoon of a
Faun, the title role in Apollo, Solor in La Bayadиre, Prince
Charming in Cinderella, Conrad in Le Corsaire, Basilio and Espada
in Don Quixote, Oberon in The Dream, the second sailor in Fancy
Free, Albrecht in Giselle, Death in The Green Table, the
Cavalier in The Nutcracker, Othello in Othello, Other
Dances, A Friend of the Family in Pillar of Fire, Bernard and Jean de
Brienne in Raymonda, Romeo, Paris and Benvolio in Romeo and
Juliet, , Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Romeo’s Farewell to Juliet),
Prince Dйsirй in The Sleeping Beauty, Prince Siegfried, von Rothbart (Act
III) and Benno in Swan Lake, James in La Sylphide, Aminta in
Sylvia, the first movement in George Balanchine’s Symphony in C,
the Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, and leading roles in Ballet Imperial,
Ballo della Regina, Clear, Drink To Me With Thine Eyes,
From Here On Out, Glow - Stop, Gong, Kaleidoscope,
In The Upper Room, Meadow, Petite Mort, Pretty Good
Year, Seven Sonatas, Sinfonietta, Les Sylphides,
Symphonic Variations, Theme and Variations and Within You
Without You: A Tribute to George Harrisonand featured roles in Clear,
Overgrown Path and workwithinwork. He created the title role in
Robert Hill’s Dorian, Olga's Fiancй in On the Dnieper and leading
roles in Citizen and Rabbit and Rogue.
Hallberg was a
recipient of the Princess Grace Fellowship and the Chris Hellman Dance Award for
2002-2003. He received a nomination for the Benois de la Danse Award in 2006.
Hallberg has guested and danced in galas throughout the world from Japan to the
Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, to name a few.
Alina Somova - Ballet "Giselle"
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Ballet "Giselle"
Conductor - Valery Ovsyanikov
Giselle - Alina Somova
Albrecht - David Hallberg
Myrtha - Shamala Guseinova
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